No clue why the sibling comment was not just down voted but flagged. But to kind of respond to it, my 0.0006 cents :) ed25519FUUU: "Generally curious, do we j

No clue why the sibling comment was not just down voted but flagged. But to kind of respond to it, my 0.0006 cents :) ed25519FUUU: "Generally curious, do we just basically ignore what happened in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China when we discuss the “community motivations” of communism and how that plays out?" - there's the political and economic philosophy, and then there are real world implementations, done with various degrees of honesty and varied goals - some will claim Russia etc are state capitalism or some other format rather than "pure communism" - some will point out that purest examples of practical communism, the Israeli Kibutz, were wildly successful (none of this is to indicate I have remotest interest in living in communism - in fact we ran across countries and continents to not be in one... But the theory is still interesting and in some ways relevant)